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Originally Posted by WACF
Up North...I have seen blogs change our main stream media.
The CBC was busted a few times for making up stories about PM Stephan Harper...or changing the slant...creative editing to ask one question and give a horrible answer that belonged to another.
Quite frankly...blogs have made Canadian media more accountable.
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There have been instances of that in the States, too. I may have painted with too broad a brush, but there is definitely a flip side to the "accountability" issue. Mainstream journalists have a system of checks and balances in place, at least superficially, to ensure a certain degree of accuracy and reliability. But to whom is a random blogger accountable?